Dear list members, I am seeing that the matter of insurance has discussed so many times. I would like to inform you all, that I have been insurance adviser in an insurance company. this company is one of the 500 fortune companies. but right now I am not working with it due to some reasons, I will be starting it with the month of the Feb. lastly, I would like to inform you that, they were begging me to have a policy of insurance. this company is Max new yourk life. For more details you can write to me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with regards, akhilesh
On 9/17/07, sweety bhalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Govt plans insurance scheme for disabled > > While the social security Bill for the unorganised sector may take a long > time in becoming a reality, the disabled in the country may get their own > insurance > scheme funded by a unique corpus soon. > > The disabled who have been denied insurance cover by companies all these > years stand to get insurance as a right once the scheme is in place this > year. > The source of the funding of the insurance scheme is also unique. > > It is to be funded through a Rs 2400 crore (Rs 24 billion) corpus that has > accrued to the Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment from public > sector > banks. > > These banks, which had made a profit while rounding off their accounts, had > been asked by the Supreme Court to spend the money for public good > specifically > for the disabled after a PIL three years ago. > > The ministry, which has started receiving the money, plans to implement the > insurance scheme in this financial year using the funds. > > Interest from this corpus would be used for various disability welfare > schemes and the insurance scheme will benefit from this fund, officials > said. > > The National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, > Mental retardation and Multiple disabilities and the Chief Commissioner for > Persons > with Disabilities are working out the social security cum insurance cover > with various insurance companies. > > A three-member team of experts, including Pradeep Ghosh of the NGO Oasis > Bhopal, Dr T V Ramesh of Insurance brokering firm Alegion in Chennai, and > Shyamala, > director of Adi (formely Spastic Society of Northern India, has been working > on the insurance scheme with the actuaries of insurance companies for the > last four months. > > Pradeep Ghosh, one of the experts working out details of the insurance > scheme with actuaries, said it was likely to be implemented on a pilot basis > in one > or two districts to begin with and would be spread out to the rest of the > country in phases. Ghosh added that it was a big achievement for the > disabled > as they had been denied insurance cover by all companies so far. > > Ghosh himself an Ashoka social entrepreneur who was formerly with the IT > sector said the insurance companies came forward for a Governemnt-supported > insurance > scheme after disability activists and lawyer Colin Gonsalvez threatened last > year to move the court on the denial of insurance cover to disabled. > > Poonam Natarajan Chairperson of the National Trust said that the scheme was > being processed and she would not be in a position to give details now. > > However sources said that the insurance cover would later incorporate > products like endowment policies which would provide pensions to the > disabled. > > The two national agencies on disability would be sending a proposal of > demands to the insurance companies and the scheme is likely to be > implemented in > this financial year, sources said. > > (Sweety Bhalla) > Assistant Manager > Mobile No. 09868300466, 09818132488 > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
